Once upon a time, in a place not so far away, there lived a frog. This frog wasn’t your typical run of the mill frog though, but was a former JW frog, now disfellowshiped for not croaking the right way.
The frog was managing to get by day to day but eventually heard of a community of other ex-JW individuals on the other side of a river. The frog began to think of how nice it would be to enjoy the company of like souls again, and decides to head over to the river.
While the frog was calculating where to enter the water a scorpion happened to come by. The frog started to move away upon seeing the scorpion but the scorpion cried out “Please Mr. Frog, I need your assistance.” The frog replied, “I’m not interested in helping you as you are a scorpion and hanging around scorpions is not smart.”
“Well that sounds pretty silly” the scorpion said. “You see I have a need to get to the other side of this river to go to the ex-dub community on the other side and I would like to climb on your back to make it to the other side safely.”
“You are a former J.W.” asked the frog?
“Yes, of course, and there are many of us,” replied the scorpion.
“But if you climbed on my back, you would surely sting me, and I would die,” replied the frog.
“But I would die too,” said the scorpion “because I would drown,” the scorpion added in the way of explanation.
Well the frog thinks about this for a moment and after a moment or two tells the scorpion to climb on his back and in a few moments they are crossing the river. Suddenly, right in the middle of the river, the frog feels a terrible pain on his back and cries out: “You stung me! Why did you do that, now we are both going to die?”
The scorpion answers, “Because that is my true nature.”
Is your true nature that of the frog or scorpion? Have you wised up to the fact that just because someone is an ex-dub doesn’t mean they are good company or someone you would even want to know? Unless you were sleeping under a rock since you’ve been here, you should know that there are a few people here in this online community that would probably set off all kinds of alarm bells for any “sane and normal” person.
How do you define who is a scorpion in this online world? Please don’t do any name calling…just point out what types of people you think it would be dangerous to associate with…or are there any?
Skipper